Bigotry, bias, and hatred in the headline calls into question everything the poster said. If the reverse were done, you, the poser, and your ilk would be screaming bloody murder about insults and denigration, so just shut your trap.
No, an L.A. Time blog is not acceptable. Blogs don't have the same journalistic requirements as an actually article so they are not an acceptable source of anything but rumor.
Yeah. That time in history is not my strong suit, so the OP may have been right and I just not know it, but what he said goes against what I remember. And, of course, things may have changed in the *mrfrsm* years since I got out of school.
You mean besides the fact that he is actually a social conservative who knows what what the pro gay marriage folks have been finding out, namely that religious bigotry and oppression are easier to accomplish on the local and state level than on the national level?
You can ship out the neocons just as soon as your buddies who said they would leave the country if Bush got (re)elected actually leave the country and renounce their citizenship.
What culture you ask? Why, the culture that said it was ok for him and his sons to set up building containing rooms for the express purpose of raping, torturing, and killing people for fun.
That is the culture to which Saddam Hussein belonged.
Its a bit harder to explain why a purple alien "Sirsac VI" can shoot a fireball because because none of that is expected.
Why would "Sirsac VI" have a magical ability in a Sci-Fi MMORPG when he could just have a laser, phaser, maser, alien equivalent to an M-79 grenade launcher?
A Wizard can throw a fireball at a running target and still hit it. The purple alien from Sirsac VI is going to have to explain why their lasers are curving towards their target because again, this isn't expected.
Last I checked, lasers travel at the speed of light. They don't have to curve towards their target. They would be shown as a solid beam directly to the target. They also don't last a long time so it would be just a flash. As far as moving target go, I am guessing you have never heard of leading one's target, which would not even be necessary using a laser as one would not be able to see the target if said target was at a great enough range and/or moving at great enough velocity to require leading when using a laser.
When I say quiet, I am referring to the SONAR system itself. The system broadcasts a sound then becomes quiet and listens for echos. The system does not broadcast a continuous sound because it could not determine distance to target for the echo.
there is not 1000x the price variance (since what was being discussed was price) between viable SDD vendors for similar products.
There may, however, be a 1000x total lifetime cost differential between an SSD solution and a standard HD solution, especially in write-intensive, redundant storage applications.
Is it now? Different uses give different read/write profiles for the same server configuration. Different server configurations add to the mix. A write-intensive application on a RAID5 system will have a much different cost/benefit analysis than a read-intensive file server using a single drive. Especially when one factors in the fact that the more often one writes to an flash memory based device, the faster that device wears out.
Your little quote should read: "we don't have enough people here. we need between 3-3000 times as many people per department, depending on the department."
To induce deafness in the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, the sonar device would have to be loud, close and would need to last for at least two minutes.
To the best of my knowledge, SONAR is short bursts of loud noise broken by longer periods of quiet to receive and process the return echos. Two minutes of continuous sound is not going to happen. Even if the effect is cumulative, a cetacean would have to travel with the source for over five minutes which it is unlikely to do if the SONAR is injurious. Would you hang out in an excruciatingly loud environment?
Now, some will point to this:Sound can become trapped if a layer of warm water lies over cold water. When sound created in the warm zone reaches the cold water it can bounce back instead of travelling though it. This, Dr Mooney said, would have the effect of trapping the sound in the warm layer, where it would bounce around "like a ping-pong ball", giving whales and dolphins little chance of escaping it.
But, the thing is, dolphins and whales are mammals. The would leave the noisy layer when they surfaced. Therefore, they would quickly learn how to escape the sound: surface or dive.
So, uhm... no? I'm just saying that PDF files cost next to nothing to produce,
But the information in the book didn't "cost next to nothing to produce"
next to nothing to "ship",
Yeah, because servers and bandwidth are free, right?
and it's kind of hard to pass around a laptop at a gaming session.
Ever hear of a printer? Passing around a laptop is no harder than passing around a book, especially if you put the laptop in the center of the table on a "lazy susan". And, pretty much every gamer I know has their own set of books, so why wouldn't they have their own set of PDFs on their own laptop or ebook reader?
Once again, what makes the books valuable is the information inside the books. I don't care how much it costs to produce a book or a PDF, the cost of producing the information contained in either is still the same and what you are paying for is the information.
It's simple -- everyone wants to be Sir Kirk, and nobody wants to be serf Ricky. How many knights of the realm can one MMO really have?
Alternately, everyone wants to be a wizard and nobody wants to be a broom stick-wielding doofus.
All the fantasy MMOs rely there being a few NPCs to provide supplies and quests and many "adventurers", when in reality,fantasy stories, and fantasy novels there are a very few "adventurers", a handful of royalty, and many peon and serfs.
No one wants to be a peon and everyone wants to be the hero, it doesn't matter if it is fantasy or sci-fi. The hard part is getting world where there can be many "heroes". EVE Online, like other successful MMORPGs, does this fairly well.
And, I can think of several different sci-fi game worlds that could well for MMORPGs.
I don't want to pay what you are asking. You are all assholes. If you don't want me to violate your copyrights, lower your prices. If you go after those that are violating your copyrights, you will be even bigger assholes. Now, GIMME GIMME GIMME!!!!
You brought this on yourselves by actually asking me to pay for the information contained in the books.
Signed, A fucking disrespectful, immature asshole who thinks he is entitled to whatever he wants at whatever price he wants to pay for it.
But the government can't do much when suddenly it's stormed from everywhere,
You believe that do you? This is an armed and violent attack on the government. The government can deploy troops with heavy caliber machine guns with armor piercing rounds. Those rounds will go through two or more people. Bring in tanks from the rear. Now you have a squeeze play, with the rioters trapped between machine guns in the front and machine guns on tanks advancing towards them in the back. Lets not forget white phosphorous rounds, flame throwers, napalm.
There is plenty the government can do. While the rioters, and apparently you, believe they are untouchable and immortal, all it takes is seeing a couple of hundred people in the front die in less than five minutes to break the will or most mobs.
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Bigotry, bias, and hatred in the headline calls into question everything the poster said. If the reverse were done, you, the poser, and your ilk would be screaming bloody murder about insults and denigration, so just shut your trap.
No, an L.A. Time blog is not acceptable. Blogs don't have the same journalistic requirements as an actually article so they are not an acceptable source of anything but rumor.
That tells me this is a bunch of bullshit and no need to read any further.
Reading comprehension is a wonderful thing, you should try it.
Yeah. That time in history is not my strong suit, so the OP may have been right and I just not know it, but what he said goes against what I remember. And, of course, things may have changed in the *mrfrsm* years since I got out of school.
I was hoping for something refuting the "everyone thought the world was flat" thing, but thanks anyway.
You mean besides the fact that he is actually a social conservative who knows what what the pro gay marriage folks have been finding out, namely that religious bigotry and oppression are easier to accomplish on the local and state level than on the national level?
You can ship out the neocons just as soon as your buddies who said they would leave the country if Bush got (re)elected actually leave the country and renounce their citizenship.
Please provide reputable, verifiable evidence of the information in your post, preferably from multiple sources.
So, we are to assume that dolphins and whales find a single loud tone to be enjoyable?
What culture you ask? Why, the culture that said it was ok for him and his sons to set up building containing rooms for the express purpose of raping, torturing, and killing people for fun.
That is the culture to which Saddam Hussein belonged.
Now, please shut the fuck up.
When was the last time you saw an animal purposely stay in or enter an "intolerable" situation?
Your post doesn't seem to have anything to do with the article.
Why would "Sirsac VI" have a magical ability in a Sci-Fi MMORPG when he could just have a laser, phaser, maser, alien equivalent to an M-79 grenade launcher?
Last I checked, lasers travel at the speed of light. They don't have to curve towards their target. They would be shown as a solid beam directly to the target. They also don't last a long time so it would be just a flash. As far as moving target go, I am guessing you have never heard of leading one's target, which would not even be necessary using a laser as one would not be able to see the target if said target was at a great enough range and/or moving at great enough velocity to require leading when using a laser.
Did you bother to read the article?
There is a recent post that you might want to read.
When I say quiet, I am referring to the SONAR system itself. The system broadcasts a sound then becomes quiet and listens for echos. The system does not broadcast a continuous sound because it could not determine distance to target for the echo.
There may, however, be a 1000x total lifetime cost differential between an SSD solution and a standard HD solution, especially in write-intensive, redundant storage applications.
Is it now? Different uses give different read/write profiles for the same server configuration. Different server configurations add to the mix. A write-intensive application on a RAID5 system will have a much different cost/benefit analysis than a read-intensive file server using a single drive. Especially when one factors in the fact that the more often one writes to an flash memory based device, the faster that device wears out.
Your little quote should read: "we don't have enough people here. we need between 3-3000 times as many people per department, depending on the department."
To the best of my knowledge, SONAR is short bursts of loud noise broken by longer periods of quiet to receive and process the return echos. Two minutes of continuous sound is not going to happen. Even if the effect is cumulative, a cetacean would have to travel with the source for over five minutes which it is unlikely to do if the SONAR is injurious. Would you hang out in an excruciatingly loud environment?
Now, some will point to this:Sound can become trapped if a layer of warm water lies over cold water. When sound created in the warm zone reaches the cold water it can bounce back instead of travelling though it. This, Dr Mooney said, would have the effect of trapping the sound in the warm layer, where it would bounce around "like a ping-pong ball", giving whales and dolphins little chance of escaping it.
But, the thing is, dolphins and whales are mammals. The would leave the noisy layer when they surfaced. Therefore, they would quickly learn how to escape the sound: surface or dive.
The conclusions seem specious to me.
But the information in the book didn't "cost next to nothing to produce"
Yeah, because servers and bandwidth are free, right?
Ever hear of a printer?
Passing around a laptop is no harder than passing around a book, especially if you put the laptop in the center of the table on a "lazy susan".
And, pretty much every gamer I know has their own set of books, so why wouldn't they have their own set of PDFs on their own laptop or ebook reader?
Once again, what makes the books valuable is the information inside the books. I don't care how much it costs to produce a book or a PDF, the cost of producing the information contained in either is still the same and what you are paying for is the information.
Your fallacy is demonstrated below
All the fantasy MMOs rely there being a few NPCs to provide supplies and quests and many "adventurers", when in reality,fantasy stories, and fantasy novels there are a very few "adventurers", a handful of royalty, and many peon and serfs.
No one wants to be a peon and everyone wants to be the hero, it doesn't matter if it is fantasy or sci-fi. The hard part is getting world where there can be many "heroes". EVE Online, like other successful MMORPGs, does this fairly well.
And, I can think of several different sci-fi game worlds that could well for MMORPGs.
In other words:
I hope you are joking because we saw how well that worked in Soviet Russia, among other places.
I highly doubt that NATO would be able to justify intervening when this is a violent insurrection.
You believe that do you? This is an armed and violent attack on the government. The government can deploy troops with heavy caliber machine guns with armor piercing rounds. Those rounds will go through two or more people. Bring in tanks from the rear. Now you have a squeeze play, with the rioters trapped between machine guns in the front and machine guns on tanks advancing towards them in the back. Lets not forget white phosphorous rounds, flame throwers, napalm.
There is plenty the government can do. While the rioters, and apparently you, believe they are untouchable and immortal, all it takes is seeing a couple of hundred people in the front die in less than five minutes to break the will or most mobs.